PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS.
WHY TENDERS GO OUTSIDE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington. Last Night. The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. J. G. Coates) referred to-day to a protest by an Auckland meeting of representatives of the Ironmasters* Association, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers’, the Boilermakers’, Bridge builders’ and Iron and Brass Union, concerning the deletion of tne clauses in public works contracts providing that the work in connection with plate and steel girders shall be done in New Zealand. The Minister explained that the deletion referred only to bridge span girders. No orders for building stuff went outside the country, and the department would much prefer that New Zealand firms should obtain the contracts ■for the supply of plate girders. la every case the department had tried to give a local man a chance, but in these days of financial stress the strictest economy was necessary in the departmental attitude. The Minister quoted a number of tenders recentlyreceived, showing considerable discrepancies between New Zealand and other quotations.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1921, Page 4
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167PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACTS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1921, Page 4
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